The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-07
HARVESTING CORN.
The Advantages and Disadvantage OF
Thrashing Corn without Husiging.

The Advantages and Disad want a ges OF
ThrashinE Corn without Husixing.
The new way of extracting the corn
from the stalks with the ordinary
thrashing machine. has attracted so
much attention and brought so many
inquiries from those anxious to know
more about the process, that, after
fuller experiment and knowledge, i
will say more about how to do il and
its advantages and disadvantages.
The machine used may be any separa-
tor-machine, such as is used for grain
thrashing, or an old superannuated
machine will do, providing it is strong
and in good working order. To pre-
pare it for corn thrashing the sections
containing all the teeth. except two
rows, should be removed and some
hardwood plank substituted in their
place. The sections containing tho
remaining teeth should be covered"
more or less according to the corn to
be thrashed. The corn should DO well
cured and the stalks must be dry in
order TO keep well when put into NOW
or stack. 1t is fed to the machine
"butts" foremost, and as fast as the
mill will properly clean the thrashed
corn or the elevator will carry away
the stalks. The better way Is to thrash
rs fast as it comes from the field, al
though if quite dry or machine can
not be obtained at the time, 1t may bo
drawn and piled upon the NOW and
thrashed from there. In order to be
easily handled it should either have
been bound In smallest bundles when
being cut, or else have the ''stOots"
divided into them and be well bound
before loaded upon the wagon for the
barn.
The advantages of this method Of
harvesting corn are rapidity in getting
the corn under cover when In proper
thus enabling the farmer
in one or two days of good weather to
house quite a large crop, also in sepa-
rating the corn from the stalks. From
four hundred to six hundred
bushels of shelled corn, or even
more, may be easily thrashed in
ten hours with good machine. and be
cleaned free from leaf, silk or cobs.
The stalks arc put in better condition
for keeping. The big "butts" are so
much torn and broken up and so thor
Dughly mixed with the drier leaves
and smaller portions of the stalks that
when put into NOW or stack there is
little danger of mold, and il when be-
ing even through the machine little
Try straw be thrown upon tho elevator
with them, or IL it be mixed with them
when being put into the NOW or stack,
here will be no danger of injury, even
when the stalks are quite green. The
stalks are taken from the fields with
The corn, thus clearing the ground
ready for fall blowing, many days or
weeks even in advance of what can Ne
lone in the Did way of hand-husking,
the farmer to have this inn
portant work done before the Disagree
,blc weather, almost sure to come later
N the fall.
The disadvantages can all be covered
lnder one head so far as / have been
,ble to find them-the shelled corn is,
If course, not as dry or thoroughly
,ured as would be needed for storing
n bins or in a very close barn. but this
IAN be easily overcome when one has
,lenty of barn-hoor by spreading the
,orn not more than one foot deep over
he floor and having shoveled over once
! day for few days, at the same time
,eeping the barn doors open and allow
ng n very free circulation Of air, or if
me happens to have lot of old corn
he two may be mixed together TO the
Of both, as the old corn
will absorb some of the moisture and
hus become less hard and more easily
nasticated il TO be fed whole, as it is
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